@InTheMoorlands I would move the pot outdoors; whatever you have planted, let it be. I've grown supermarket ones in a builder's bucket. Though they may not be the best harvest, still good as 1 or 2 bulbs had multiplied to 10+. The flavour was good too.
They need to be at least six inches apart and if I don’t use all the seeds will those unused keep until
Autumn? Not a problem given the price just interested.
At about 750 feet on the western edge of The Pennines. Clay soil.
I don't know where you read to plant Supermarket garlic
I didn't read this anywhere - all the reading that I did said not to do it. I tried it as a relative had grown some in an unheated greenhouse a few years ago and they had been OK.
They lived in Southern England and are quite a bit lower than us!
At about 750 feet on the western edge of The Pennines. Clay soil.
I only look at Amazon as my usual two suppliers were not selling garlic bulbs. This site looks ideal.
The site suggests three cloves per 15cm pot which seems a bit crowded from what has been posted here but I imagine they know how it's done. I could get nine of this size for £10 from Amazon.
At about 750 feet on the western edge of The Pennines. Clay soil.
@InTheMoorlands - success in growing veg varies from season to season just because of teh weather. Experience will tell you how to react when there's too much rain or not enough etc but you do need to respect planting distances if you want your garlic to develop decent bulbs and it does need some cold to help it form bulbs.
I would persevere with what you have got going but maybe try again with some spring garlic. Belt and braces.
As well as youtube, try looking up "how to grow xxx" on the GW and RHS websites and maybe Garden organic too.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
I think that the problem is that there is too much information out there which gets me a bit confused at times!
I really appreciate what people here have suggested about planting garlic but then I come across a site like this where garlic is just crammed into pots, not only that but they look to be growing nicely:
The problem with your link is - it's an American site @InTheMoorlands That's why it's important to make sure you use UK sites for your info or you could find all sorts of problems.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
If you read back @InTheMoorlands, you will see that I planted mine in the ground, well spaced, and only put the spare cloves in a window box at a similar spacing to yours in the pot. I do not expect fat, storable bulbs from the ones in the box.
Garlic, and other alliums, need fertile soil, full sun and adequate mositure for 6 months so, after last year's droughts and heatwaves, I have planted the ones in the ground further apart than I would normally so they have less competition for nutrients and water. Their bed will be hoes regularly to kee the weeds down and I'll give them a sacttering of some pelleted chicken manure every month or so.
Composts for pots and troughs only have feed for a max of 90 days so you will need to feed and water your pots regularly and will need plenty of sunshine and even then can't be expected to produce fat bulbs, hence my advice to treat them as a cut and come again herb.
Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
"The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
Stick with the two links I posted, you can't go far wrong with Gardeners World website and the RHS. Get some books written by famous UK gardeners and read those. You need to educate yourself properly with the masters. There is some good, patchy and poor advice on social media, really you don't know who the heck you're taking free advice from and why.
Stick with the two links I posted, you can't go far wrong with Gardeners
World website and the RHS. Get some books written by famous UK
gardeners and read those.
I’m reading as much as I can. The problem is that there is too much conflicting info.
out there. In the space of a day I’ve
read/been told that garlic cloves must be six inches apart, three/four inches apart (ruralsprout site),
three cloves in a six inch pot (The Garlic Farm site) and then find a site
where garlic plants are crammed right
next to each other!
Very confusing to say the least!
I'm probably reading too much and keeping to the two sites that you mentioned might be a good idea.
At about 750 feet on the western edge of The Pennines. Clay soil.
Posts
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Live-Seeds-Garlic-Purple-Planting/dp/B08W4GHS2W/ref=sr_1_4?crid=RFX7ESUWE0SU&keywords=garlic+for+planting+uk&qid=1677257892&s=outdoors&sprefix=garlic+%2Coutdoor%2C74&sr=1-4
They need to be at least six inches apart and if I don’t use all the seeds will those unused keep until Autumn? Not a problem given the price just interested.
I didn't read this anywhere - all the reading that I did said not to do it. I tried it as a relative had grown some in an unheated greenhouse a few years ago and they had been OK.
They lived in Southern England and are quite a bit lower than us!
Somewhere like this would be far better
https://www.thegarlicfarm.co.uk/buy/garlic-for-growing
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I would persevere with what you have got going but maybe try again with some spring garlic. Belt and braces.
As well as youtube, try looking up "how to grow xxx" on the GW and RHS websites and maybe Garden organic too.
That's why it's important to make sure you use UK sites for your info or you could find all sorts of problems.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Garlic, and other alliums, need fertile soil, full sun and adequate mositure for 6 months so, after last year's droughts and heatwaves, I have planted the ones in the ground further apart than I would normally so they have less competition for nutrients and water. Their bed will be hoes regularly to kee the weeds down and I'll give them a sacttering of some pelleted chicken manure every month or so.
Composts for pots and troughs only have feed for a max of 90 days so you will need to feed and water your pots regularly and will need plenty of sunshine and even then can't be expected to produce fat bulbs, hence my advice to treat them as a cut and come again herb.
You need to educate yourself properly with the masters. There is some good, patchy and poor advice on social media, really you don't know who the heck you're taking free advice from and why.
I’m reading as much as I can. The problem is that there is too much conflicting info. out there. In the space of a day I’ve read/been told that garlic cloves must be six inches apart, three/four inches apart (ruralsprout site), three cloves in a six inch pot (The Garlic Farm site) and then find a site where garlic plants are crammed right next to each other!
Very confusing to say the least!
I'm probably reading too much and keeping to the two sites that you mentioned might be a good idea.